Red Sleeves immediately kowtowed, and before she could speak.

And he saw a messenger trotting in.

Immediately interrupted Red Sleeves' words: "My lord." ”

"What's the matter?" Li Yu was suddenly a little displeased, what he hated the most was that when he was solving the case, someone came to disturb him.

Hearing this, Yacha hurriedly said: "Prince Li and the eldest prince of Qin are outside the door, saying that it is the case of the county lord of Qinhe poisoning the lady of the Jin Kingdom, which has attracted the attention of the emperor, and specially sent the prince to come and take a look. ”

Hearing that this case had attracted the attention of the emperor, Li Yu did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up and invite Prince Li and Prince Qin." ”

Hua Zhen's heart suddenly moved, this person was naturally not sent by her to inform her.

Thinking of Qin Huai, his heart couldn't help but sink and knelt on the ground.

I listened to the familiar voice of Prince Li behind him.

Li Yu had already walked to the door to greet him, and when he saw Prince Li, he said respectfully: "The lower official will see the prince." ”

"Lord Li, please get up quickly, this king is just coming to take a look for the emperor, you don't need to care. With that, Prince Li walked in.

Shen Chongmao and Hua Zhen wanted to give Prince Li a salute.

Prince Li looked at Shen Chongmao, and a sneer rose at the corner of his mouth: "This Jin Guo Mansion is not a bad feng shui this year, and things have not been broken one after another, first Showa had an accident in the Jin State Mansion, and now it is the Jin State Lady who was poisoned, Jin Guo Gong seems that what the emperor said is right, you are afraid that this back house must be cleaned up well." ”

Shen Chongmao was suddenly shocked in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything in front of Prince Li, so he could only lower his head.

Li Yu asked someone to bring a chair and respectfully invited Prince Li to sit down beside him.

Hua Zhen felt a gaze staring at herself, and when she raised her head, she saw that Qin Huai was looking at her, and the look in her eyes was very complicated.

Immediately bowed his head and knelt to the side.

Li Yu saw that Prince Li had already sat down, so he bowed and bowed, and turned back to his court.

"Red Sleeves, come on. ”

Hearing this, Red Sleeves glanced at Hua Zhen, then gritted his teeth, and his gaze was even more firm: "Lord Huiyu, at the end of last night, the maid Jiaoyue beside the county lord of Qinghe found the slave maid, and gave the slave maid a gold ingot and a plate of hibiscus cake at the pavilion behind Zhixiang Garden. said that this hibiscus cake was added to the croton, and the county lord wanted to teach Mrs. Jin a lesson. The reason is just because the lady of the Jin Kingdom wronged the county lord of Qinghe the day before, and the county lord has a grudge, but he knows that if he does it himself, he is afraid that the lady will be guarded, so he found the slave maid. Let the slave maid find Ruyi, the maid in the old lady's yard, and tell Ruyi that this hibiscus cake was made by the third lady who wanted to please Mrs., but she was afraid that Mrs. would not eat it, so she asked Ruyi to send it to Mrs. in the name of the eldest aunt and grandmother. The slave maid didn't expect that this hibiscus cake was not an ordinary croton, but arsenic was added. The lady ate the hibiscus cake and was poisoned. ”

As Red Sleeves spoke, tears fell from her eyes, as if she was afraid and guilty.

Hearing this, Jiaoyue sneered: "Didn't you just know when and where I was looking for you in Jingzhao Mansion, why did you teach you to do this kung fu?"

Red Sleeves didn't say a word.

Li Yu immediately frowned slightly, and patted the wood: "The official didn't ask you, don't interject." ”

Jiaoyue was startled, and immediately nodded and knelt on the ground.

Li Yu looked at Jiaoyue when he heard this: "Is there such a thing?"

"Lord Qiyu, the slave maid stayed in the Zhixiang Garden last night and never went out at all, and the maids and servants of the Zhixiang Garden can testify to this, so you just need to send someone to ask. I never saw her last night, and I couldn't have given her hibiscus cake. Kyaukyue knelt on the ground as she spoke.

Shen Chongmao immediately spoke up: "Master Li, this Jiaoyue is her personal maid, so naturally she won't admit it." ”

"According to my uncle's meaning, it's not that what Red Sleeves says is right, and what my maid says is because it's wrong to cover me. Hua Zhen heard this, with a little sadness on her face.

It's a little unbearable for people to see it.

Rao is Li Yu saw the tears on Hua Zhen's face at this moment, and he felt a little unbearable in his heart, and he looked at Shen Chongmao and lost his face.

"Jin Guogong, now it is the official who decides the case, and I ask Jin Guogong not to interfere. Since the Duke of Jin Guo said that this Jiaoyue is the maid of the county lord of Qinghe is not credible, then this red sleeve is also the maid of your Jin State Mansion, what she said is not credible?"

Listening to Li Yu's words, Shen Chongmao suddenly looked suffocated.

I had to arch my hand: "Lord Li, I am also a little sad and excessive for a while because of the death of my inside-in-law, so I lost my sense of proportion, and I ask Lord Li to forgive me." ”

Hearing this, Li Yu looked at Red Sleeves: "You said she told you to go out and gave you hibiscus cake with arsenic?"

Redsleeves nodded.

"You said you hadn't seen her at all, and you hadn't left the door of Zhixiangyuan?"

Jiaoyue also nodded: "The slave maid has been out of the yard from time to time, but she went to the fifth lady's place, because one of the fifth misses' maid Xiaorui was unwell, and the county lord asked the slave and maid to help send Xiaorui back, and he never went out of the door of Zhixiang Garden again." ”

Hearing this, Li Yu nodded.

"Come on, go to the Jin State Mansion and ask if what the two of them said is true. ”

As he spoke, he looked at the red sleeves: "Since you said that you went to see the county lord of Qinghe at the moment of the day, then someone should be able to see it, and the official will call someone to take a look now, what you are saying is the truth." ”

Suddenly, the body of the red sleeves trembled.

Shen Chongmao looked at it and began to feel a little uneasy in his heart.

Thinking of Shen Yulin's words in his heart, he immediately said: "Lord Li, the reason why Hua Zhen poisoned my wife was because Mrs. had wronged her the day before yesterday, thinking that she had provoked the son of the Marquis of Changping, which made the second son of the Marquis of Changping offend the lord of Zhaoyang, so he held a grudge." The poisoning of my wife was a temporary idea, and Hua Zhen's arsenic was also temporarily bought in Beijing, so I think why don't you send someone to the pharmacy in Beijing to ask, someone has come to buy arsenic recently. Arsenic is not something that everyone will buy, presumably if she had bought it, the people in the pharmacy would have an impression. ”

Li Yu nodded when he heard this, what Shen Chongmao said was true.

He glanced at Prince Li, and saw that Prince Li had no opinion, so he immediately sent someone to search the pharmacies.

Here, Hua Zhen was still kneeling on the ground, her body not moving, as if she didn't want to defend herself.

The more she was like this, Qin Huai felt distressed when she saw it.

But thinking of Hua Zhen's attitude towards herself, Qin Huai didn't know how to get close to her.

I could only watch her kneel on the ground from afar.

After waiting for a while, the people who went to the Jin State Mansion came back.

Yacha came in and saw Prince Li sitting in the public hall, very nervous, his eyes swept over Shen Chongmao and Hua Zhen, and then he knelt on the ground: "My lord." ”

"How's it going?" Li Yu immediately asked.

Yacha glanced at Red Sleeves and Jiaoyue: "The little one went to the Jin State Mansion to ask, and the maid of Zhixiangyuan said that this Jiaoyue girl was indeed in Shenshi, and sent a maid named Xiaorui back to the fifth lady with another Jiang Fu beside the county lord. Later, they never went out again, and when there was a commotion in the yard in the middle of the night, it was also Kyaukyue and Jiang Fu who were still waiting in the county lord's house. As for the maid in the courtyard of the red-sleeved girl, she watched her go out at three o'clock in the hour, and no one watched her go out after that. ”

When Li Yu heard this, he looked at the red sleeves, and saw that the red sleeves were a little flustered.

The fourth lady obviously said that as long as she bites to death, it will be fine if Hua Zhen did it.

I never thought that this Li Yu would go to the Jin State Mansion to ask.

Shen Chongmao's face also changed at this moment, and he looked at Li Yu: "Lord Li, since Jiaoyue secretly asked her out, how could she let people see it, I'm afraid that when no one saw it, they all left." ”

Li Yu didn't say anything when he heard this, but the yacha who was kneeling on the ground said: "We also found a corpse in the Jin State Mansion, and a maid has seen this person before she died, and it was this red-sleeved girl who went to look for her. ”

Suddenly, Li Yu's face changed, and he looked at Shen Chongmao, who also had a puzzled look on his face, and said coldly: "Bring it up." ”

With a wave of his hand, someone carried a stretcher up, and it was not someone else who was lying on it, but Xiaorui.

There were also several servant girls behind him, all of whom were rough maids from the Shen family.

The first Hua Zhen looked familiar, not someone else, it was Xiao Fluttershy in Shen Yuqing's yard.

Fluttershy's face turned pale at the moment, and she trembled with fear when she saw Shen Chongmao.

Immediately knelt on the ground.

Li Yu looked at Xiaorui's face was blue and her lips were purple, and asked her to come for an autopsy.

He listened to the pretence and looked at it for a while, and then said, "My lord, this person died of arsenic at that time." Because it was not easy to inspect too carefully in the hall, I could only take a cursory look. ”

When Jiaoyue fed Xiaorui hibiscus cake, she was afraid that she would spit it out, so she specially poured a lot of water, and there was no dregs left in her mouth at the moment, so she could only see that she had died of arsenic.

Li Yu waved his hand to let him retreat aside, and then asked the maids kneeling on the ground: "Who is this person?"

Hearing this, the voices of several people trembled, and they couldn't say it tremblingly, but Xiaorui was more bold and finished speaking: "Back to my lord, she is the maid Xiaorui who is serving closely by our young lady's side, and she entered the house with Red Sleeves from the same villager." ”

"When did you find out she's dead?" Li Yu looks at Fluttershy.

Fluttershy glanced at Shen Chongmao, and then said with a scared look, "Because the county lord asked the maid to send her back last night, saying that she suddenly felt a little different, Miss Fifth told her to rest. This morning, I thought that if I felt unwell, I should ask the doctor to take a look, so I went to call her, but by the time I entered the room, Fluttershy was already dead. ”

"When was that?" Li Yu frowned when he heard this.

"It's time to go. ”

Shen Chongmao on the side heard this, his heart jumped, he was already in Jingzhao Mansion at that time, could it be that there was something he didn't know about in the middle.

Li Yu didn't know what Shen Chongmao was thinking, and just looked at Fluttershy.

"So none of you know exactly when she died?"

Fluttershy nodded.

Li Yu thought for a while and looked at Hua Zhen: "You saw the deceased last night when you were in the middle of the hour?"